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The number of Burnet Lady Dawgs attending voluntary workouts says plenty about the program

July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

To say coaches of the Burnet High School Lady Dawgs are encouraged by the number of athletes attending voluntary strength-and-conditioning sessions is an understatement. The average number of high school athletes attending daily is 40, while 21 middle school students are coming. Soccer head coach Kim Myhre credits a couple of reasons for attendance. “The success we had this year,” she said, noting that volleyball, basketball and soccer all advanced to Class 4A Region III tournaments. “They’re showing up and working hard.” The other, and this might be the most…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #LadyJackets, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. In my almost two decades of covering sports in the Highland Lakes, little surprises me. And yet there’s no question of the optimism surrounding sports programs among the coaching staffs of the three public high schools. That’s because coaches can see their players are putting in the work this summer to get better. That should pay dividends during the upcoming school year. If you doubt, please consider…

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Local softball team featuring players from the Highland Lakes is headed to a World Series

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #johnsoncity, #libertyhill, #MarbleFalls, #ruthless, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

The Ruthless Allstars 2022, a squad featuring players who are 12 years old and younger from across the Highland Lakes, are headed to a PONY Softball World Series in Laredo July 12-17. To help pay for the trip, the team is accepting donations. Players will conduct a “Fill the Helmet” fundraiser beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, July 2, at the entrance of the the city of Cottonwood Shores on the corner of RR 2147 and Pecan Lane. Donors also can give through Venmo: @Ruthless-Allstars2022, “We’re looking for funds to get…

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Social media group invites Burnet Bulldogs of all ages to share their memories, experiences

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Burnet High School has had three different football teams play for state championships that are special memories for the players, trainers, coaches and everyone who wears the Kelly green. Those experiences is why 1988 Burnet High School graduate Randy Denton started the Burnet Bulldog Football Alumni page after attending a Bulldog Dads gathering with head coach Bryan Wood where attendees were brainstorming ideas on how to get more community involvement. “We want to get people excited and try to do things,” Denton said. “It was something we came up with…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #Burnetcountytx, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. The end of June is near. And that means a real push for athletes to attend voluntary strength-and-conditioning sessions will pick up speed in July. Let’s face it — even I am struggling to do my workouts indoors with the air conditioner and fans blaring. So those athletes who use the last invaluable weeks of the summer to arrive fit for the first day of fall training…

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Burnet’s Maynard takes steps toward realizing his college dream

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #roadrunners, #tarletonstate, #texans, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #utsa0 comment

Several Highland Lakes athletes are using the summer to take a step closer to turning their dreams into reality, including Burnet senior offensive lineman Kaleb Maynard. He attended camps at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tarleton State University and the University of Incarnate Word and will head to Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La. July 2 with one goal — to earn a football scholarship. “Their coaches sent me an invitation,” he said. “They have been looking at me and my tape. All the coaches have been really…

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New sports districts show similar traits to Marble Falls MS

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #ponies, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Marble Falls Middle School will play in a new sports district that’s similar to the high school’s beginning in the 2022-23 school year. The football teams will play Burnet, Lago Vista and Lampasas. “They’re closer to us in who we are,” Marble Falls Middle School athletic coordinator for sports medicine and athletic coordinator Doc Harrington said. “I think this new district allows us to be on equal footing.” Middle school coordinators wanted the district to mirror the high school’s district that includes Comal Davenport, the new high school that will…

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Next Level caps busy month with tournament victories

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyBadgers, #LadyDawgs, #LadyMustangs, #Lampasas, #LampasasCounty, #MarbleFalls, #nextlevel, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Three Next Level basketball teams performed well in tournaments against some great opponents that traveled from across the state and country. Next Level’s 17-and-under girls team went 1-2 at the Foreverland Tournament June 18-19, while the 15-and-under team finished third in its division at the same event with a 2-1 record. The 17-and-under team defeated Nike Pro Skills Roberts 55-32 but lost to Texas Lone Star Gold Dallas 46-42 and to Texas Elite Premier, the host, 46-37. The team, coached by Malcolm Canada, featured MaeSyn Gay, Grace Gates and Zaria…

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Marble Falls graduate Shipley is named ACPA head coach

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #Flames, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #marblefallsfaith, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Highland Lakes football player Hanner Shipley is following in the footsteps of his father Stephen and uncle Bob by becoming a football head coach. The younger Shipley is reviving the football program at Athens Christian Preparatory Academy after a six-year hiatus. He will spend the 2022-23 academic year preparing for the Storm’s return to the gridiron in the fall of 2023. Shipley, who graduated from Louisiana Tech in 2019 with a degree is sociology, lives in Athens with his wife, Audrey, and has been working at the Texas Insurance Agency…

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Burnet, Llano softball players chosen for TCGA all-state teams

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #LadyJackets, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The Highland Lakes has several talented softball players who are on the Texas Girls Coaches Association all-state teams or are chosen to compete in the organization’s all-star game. Burnet graduate Savannah Gomez was named to the Class 4A all-state team. Gomez along with fellow graduates Katie Barnett, Yareli Vega and Rylea Whitus were named academic all-state, Llano juniors Gwyn Burnett and Skylar Brown were named to the Class 3A all-state team, while senior pitcher Madison Kloepper will play in the TCGA all-star game July 12 in Arlington. Kloepper, who committed…